{"id":63,"date":"2005-08-29T22:27:25","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T12:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/japan\/?p=63"},"modified":"2007-08-28T19:45:58","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T09:45:58","slug":"immigration-information-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/work-in-japan\/immigration-resources\/immigration-information-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Information Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese Ministry of Justice&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moj.go.jp\/ENGLISH\/information\/iic-01.html\">Immigration Information Center<\/a> is the best place to call for all immigration related issues. It&#8217;s located in Tokyo inside the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/japan\/work-in-japan\/immigration-resources\/tokyo-regional-immigration-bureau\/\">Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau<\/a>, but you can call them from anywhere in Japan (or, presumably, from outside Japan). The staff there speak a variety of foreign languages.<\/p>\n<p>Their phone number is <strong>(03) 5796-7112<\/strong>, and they&#8217;re open from 9am till 4pm, Monday to Friday. They have a lunch hour from noon to 1pm. According to the website, the services they offer are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Guidance on procedures to apply for entry permission for spouses, employees and others.<\/li>\n<li>Guidance on procedures for acquiring or changing status of residence and extending periods of stay.<\/li>\n<li>Guidance on alien registration procedures.<\/li>\n<li>Guidance on various documents required for applications.<\/li>\n<li>Guidance on general immigration matters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are other Immigration Information Centres throughout Japan &#8212; see the Ministry of Justice&#8217;s list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moj.go.jp\/ENGLISH\/information\/ib-09.html\">immigration offices<\/a> throughout Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese Ministry of Justice&#8217;s Immigration Information Center is the best place to call for all immigration related issues. It&#8217;s located in Tokyo inside the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau, but you can call them from anywhere in Japan (or, presumably, from outside Japan). The staff there speak a variety of foreign languages. Their phone number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}